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October 27, 2006

How Long Does It Take Google To Find Great Links?

A WebmasterWorld thread asks how long on average would you guess that it takes Google to find good links and act on it?

Let's assume that this site gives off "good links" when I link to someone. For example, I am going to link to Justilien who suggests in the WebmasterWorld thread that;

For a high-quality link from a site with "a lot of trust" I have seen it affect rankings in as little as a week.

He should see a bump up in some of his rankings in Google on about November 3rd from that link.

I'll be honest, people have told me that soon after I linked to them from within an article on this site, their rankings did improve.

I think it all goes back to trust. You get links from trustworthy sites, you become more trustworthy yourself.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Link Building at October 27, 2006 7:55 AM Comments (7)

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hey rusty feel free to use any of my sites if you want to test again how fast trustworthy links are found :)

 

Posted by goodroi at October 27, 2006 09:57

Posted by Barry Schwartz at October 27, 2006 10:04

I have seen benefit passed from trusted links in less than a week. I have seen it take up to two weeks for a trusted link to pass value. It depends on more factors than we know about, but you make a sound, cogent point. The trused links help validate domains, especially new domains.

 

Posted by Michael Martinez at October 27, 2006 12:22

Benefit time is determined by many other factors, including age of the linked to site. One example: I created a link to a 'los angeles finance' website. nothing happened for 6 months, then suddenly he was on page 1.

 

Posted by cvos at October 29, 2006 23:10

Would that mean that every PR7 Site has the same trust and has the same influence?

I have a hard time getting in the top10 with this site www.bosnian-pyramid.net and try to find out if such a link would really do the big jump.

 

Posted by ||NeX|| at October 30, 2006 04:00

I guess it all comes back to trust, does it?

 

Posted by Eric Monse at October 15, 2007 18:16

So how long does it take? What makes the site trustworthy? The PR? If so what PR is considered trust worthy?

 

Posted by Jayson at October 21, 2007 19:39

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